Returns are resumed after four days of the implementation of the US and China mediated ceasefire agreement in the border zone of Asian countries
About 200,000 people who were displaced from their homes in late July due to the armed confrontation between e They have returned in the last hours to their homes, located in border provinces, the authorities of both countries reported on Sunday. After Cambodia accounted for almost 170,000 displaced and Thailand another 190,000, these numbers were reduced on thousands on one side and to 26,880 on the other, respectively. Although Phnom Penh has not specified the number of people who remain this Sunday in temporary shelters, he confirmed that some of these places have already been closed and thousands of citizens are again in their homes.
Returns continue on Monday (4), after four nights in a row without attacks on the border zone, where a ceasefire was implemented last Wednesday with the mediation of the United States and China, which is being supervised by military delegates of the Association of Southeast Asia (Asean). Bangcoc has asked Sisaket province residents to remain in temporary shelters until the area is finished that the area is threatened after the Thai army accused Cambodian of placing anti -personal mines in some territories.
Thailand has been a special emphasis on the neutralization of drones that fly over these regions and in the prison of spy suspects near the border lines. Both governments reiterated on Sunday their willingness to attend the meeting of the General Border Committee (CGF), which will be held from Monday to Thursday in Malaysia, and will feature the observation of USA and China. The confrontation broke out on July 24 and extended for five days, which left a balance of 44 dead and more than 100 injured on both sides of the dividing line. Bangcoc and Phnom Penh, whose border was cartographed by France in 1907, when Cambodia was its colony, have a historical territorial dispute that fought in May with the death of a Cambodian military in a confrontation between the two armies in an area claimed by both parties.
*With information from EFE
